New locks

[swaggy]

I did not see these discussed on the forum yet so wanted to throw this out there:

http://www.gojiaccess.com/home.html

http://www.august.com

Both appear to have BLE and WiFi support although I wonder how much functionality you lose if you don't allow "cloud" access.

I have a Yale zwave installed and I am very dissapointed with battery life and overall reliability of zwave in general. These sure look cool, hope the deliver.

 

[signal15]

I did not see these discussed on the forum yet so wanted to throw this out there:

http://www.gojiaccess.com/home.html

http://www.august.com

Both appear to have BLE and WiFi support although I wonder how much functionality you lose if you don't allow "cloud" access.

I have a Yale zwave installed and I am very dissapointed with battery life and overall reliability of zwave in general. These sure look cool, hope the deliver.

 
 
I've got the Yale touchscreen Z-wave lock and I'm happy with it.  It seems that battery life is *highly* influenced by whether or not your bolt binds when it's opening or closing.  I put in an adjustable door strike, so when I close the door and it latches, the deadbolt won't rub on the door frame.  Makes a big difference.  If it rubs, you'll notice the thing works hard to operate the bolt, and it will run a few seconds trying to get it all the way closed, versus only running a half second or so.
 
I haven't had any reliability problems with this one either.  I did on my Schlage, but that was a long way from other Z-wave devices, and there was a lot of metal in between (cars).

 

[rickgd]

I also have the Yale and agree with signal15, It has been quite reliable. I too have noted the battery life is influenced by the bolt binding with the strike plate. I don't have an adjustable plate (didnt know they existed until now) but I did take a dremel to the plate until the bolt moved freely. My door expands and contracts quite a bit with the temperature outside as it is south facing and gets direct sunlight during the day. I can actually hear it "popping" as the heat hits it. This affected the bolts ability to engage cleanly. Opening up the plate helped this.
 
Thanks for the links to the new Locks. those look really interesting and I would be willing to take a closer look at them at some point (perhaps when/if the Yale lock takes a dive).

 

[swaggy]

When I had originally installed the lock, the batteries would die after about a month. I called Yale and they sent me a replacement zwave radio. Since then it got noticeably better but still only a few months of battery life (3 months at the most). We use the door quite a bit but I only have it lock by zwave once a day (when arming NIGHT). My other problem is overall reliability of zwave and the HAI integration but I guess I can't blame Yale for that.